@PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
If there was a baby boom, does that mean there will be a death boom
2026-04-25 23:28 UTC
Replies (33)
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@AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 2026-04-25 23:31
Generally, you’ll see terms like “demographic collapse” instead, but yeah basically. A lot of people were born during the immediate post-WWII years. Those people are now dying. Cause and effect.
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@tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 20:25
We generally call those wars and plagues.
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@wabafee@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 05:39
I guess two world wars, the plague and COVID would be a death boom?
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@SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2026-04-25 23:58
I moved to a small town (pop. 3.000) and there were two mortuaries working here. It has slowed down now and one had to close.
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@RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 02:10
God I hope so.
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@the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 00:47
Hopefully soon, boomers have ruined everthing.
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@bigfish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-25 23:36
Starts with a "oh shit these old people have expensive healthcare needs!", proceeds to "how the hell are we going to pay for their elder benefits?" (Social Security in the US), and eventually to "even their houses got gobbled up by the banks and private capital when they had to reverse mortgage their homes to pay off their medical bills and live out their final days...."
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@NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 13:49
Yup.
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@Griffus@lemmy.zip 2026-04-26 17:07
It has already started.
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@mangobanana@discuss.online 2026-04-27 04:08
We had one in 2020 and 2021
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@prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 13:36
We can only fucking hope...
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@GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 10:27
yes. it's actually a huge thing the funeral world is dreading.
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@fodor@lemmy.zip 2026-04-27 04:18
Yes of course. The aging population phenomenon is well-documented. In Japan, it has been a matter of political discussion for decades. The U.S. has (until recently) relied on immigration to offset the declining birth rate.
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@Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 2026-04-27 00:42
Americans can't afford nursing homes and elder care. So, afraid death it is. Hope there's no reverse mortgage for any of you to deal with.
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@nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-26 14:40
The worst part of WWIII will be the second wave boomers, because they’ll trigger WWIV when they age out of relevancy.
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@slazer2au@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 07:14
I like to call them death waves because that is what we called them in Cities Skylines.
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@someguy3@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 02:30
I think the deaths are a little more spread out.
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@PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 06:02
A baby is the product of birth, the product of death is a corpse, so it'd be a corpse bloom.
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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-26 05:57
I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths
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@Hikermick@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 01:20
The "baby boom" happened between 1946 and 1964, an 18 year period. Not everyone will die within an 18 year period. Some have already passed, some will live into their 90's and could be around until the 2060's
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@trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-26 09:48
Retirement is more of a synchronized event, because folks generally retire around the same age...
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@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-26 04:58
One can only hope.
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@DrBob@lemmy.ca 2026-04-26 00:21
Yes. We have been talking about it for 30 years at this point.
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@kbal@fedia.io 2026-04-25 23:37
It's normally thought of as more of a "baby bust" but same thing really, a big whack of old people around for a while.
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@Bakedtaint@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 02:30
Sure as fuck hope so
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@BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 2026-04-26 00:49
Sort of. You do get an increase in death rates decades later as people from a baby boom eventually die. However births tend to be in relative sync (closer together anyway) during a baby boom say over a period of a few years, while deaths are much more spread out maybe over a decade or more. That's because other factors come into play such as individual health, and the differences in people of the same age's health depending on economic state and lifestyle etc. In otherwords, lots of people may have been born in say 1945 but their deaths will be spread out over years because not everyone dies at the same age. Many western countries are going through a period of natural population decline due to low birth rates and increasing death rates as baby boomers from 1945 onwards start dying. But those deaths are spread out, and somewhat offset by immigration. So yes more people are dying but populations are overall stable or even growing as immigrants flow in.
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@dreksob@feddit.online 2026-04-26 02:59
Yea, but it has more to do with baby boomers wrecking everything than anything else.
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@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 00:49
Of the 76M Boomers born between '45 and '69, 64M are still alive. With a life expectancy of 85 and the first traumch entering their 80s this year, we would expect to see a rapid fall off in the population (or a rapid climb in life expectancy average) over the next decade
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@darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2026-04-26 02:12
Yeah, it's already happening in places like Japan but what'll really do it in for everyone is WW3. Any day now and Trump will cause it. I'd wage money but we all know once that starts, currency won't be worth damn.
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@FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2026-04-26 00:07
There’s a film that deals with this exact situation, based on a true story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burial_(film)
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@Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-26 00:32
Aren’t all bombs death booms?
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@AmidFuror@fedia.io 2026-04-26 04:02
Hating on everyone from a race or gender: ❌️ Hating on everyone from a generation: 👌
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-04-26 01:33
this is from gemini but 2005 would be the year 2/3rds of the greatest gen had passed away and 2028 will be silent generation. 2045 for boomers and X is 2064. So we are just getting to the point where more elderly boomers are dying over silent generation. Whats funny is it will be much longer for Xers to overtake boomers because of how large the boomers are and how small the Xers are and then it will be a shorter time once there are more millenials dying because they also are larger. Boomers will be the main diers for like 30 years going forward. I mean using current life expectancy anyway.